Mispronunciations in music

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  1. swandown

    swandown Under Assistant West Coast Forum Resident

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    Is it Neil Shawn or Neil Shone?

    Also, is it Gary Shur-rone or Gary Shuh-rone-ay?
     
  2. stunner2020

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    "Oh no I'm compromaised, I must apologaise," in Queen's "Brighton Rock" in order to rhyme "compromised" and "apologise" with "erase" and "holidays," maybe?

    For genuine mispronunciations though, try Serge Gainsbourg's English version of "Bonnie and Clyde"! For example, he sings "find a fiend" as "find (rhyming with "grinned") a find (rhyming with "mind"), he uses "read" in the present tense (rhyming with "need") when it's supposed to be past-tense (rhyming with "said"), also "squeal" becomes "skill", though that could just be an accent thing.

    Probably fair enough on account of the fact that 1) He was "passable" at English but never truly mastered it, and 2) He was a genius. And also, the song is great. Both in its original form and in the English version.

     
  3. dbsea

    dbsea Forum Resident

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    Lou Reed
    Billy
    Sally Can't Dance

    Then we both went to collage
    He studied medicine, while I studied foilage

    Lou really had to work hard to rhyme foilage with collage.
     
  4. Benjamin Edge

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    Elton John did this a lot. . . I mean check out "Levon" and "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me."

    ~Ben
     
  5. InStepWithTheStars

    InStepWithTheStars It's a miracle, let it alter you

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    Scanning, I knew there was a word for that. The "Paint It Black One" fits both, incidentally.

    Damn, how could I forget that one? I listened to the album twice today... but yes, that's another one. And, if I'm not mistaken, he also pronounces the same word completely differently - also wrong - either near the beginning or end of the song.
     
  6. Synthfreek

    Synthfreek I’m a ray of sunshine & bastion of positivity

    I like how Ice Cube says "selling narcotta" in "F Tha Police."
     
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  7. BrewDrinkRepeat

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    Neither. It rhymes with "don" and "con" and "Ron".
     
  8. swandown

    swandown Under Assistant West Coast Forum Resident

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    Doesn't "shawn" rhyme with "don"? It rhymes with "dawn".
     
  9. bleachershane

    bleachershane Forum Resident

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    ABBA - Happy New Year
    "No more CHampagne", with extra emphasis on the CHHH! ;)
     
  10. Mal

    Mal Phorum Physicist

    "Lady's name was Syoosan Moore..."

    The Lady Came From Baltimore - Scott Walker
     
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  11. graystoke

    graystoke Forum Resident

    Andy Partridge mispronouncing "umbilical" in order to rhyme it with "cycle" on "Season's Cycle". Torture!
     
  12. BwanaBob

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    Though I love the song, I always wince when I hear Greg Lake sing "na-palm fire" instead of "nay-palm fire" in King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man.
     
  13. aoxomoxoa

    aoxomoxoa I'm an ear sitting in the sky

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    McCartney on wildlife "Aminals" in the zoo
     
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  14. posnera

    posnera Forum Resident

    Not familiar with the song, but I've heard many non-US physicians pronounce umbilical as um-bi-LIKE-al. Drove me nuts in real life.
     
  15. bunglejerry

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    Problem with an international forum such as this; different accents. Google 'cot/caught merger' for the root of this misunderstanding.
     
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  16. FVDnz

    FVDnz Forum Resident

    - Marillion - Incommunicado // Fish pronouncing eccentricity with ee-cen-tricity. Even the title of the song in "Incommuni-cado" rather than 'cah-do."

    - The band Sepultura. Back in the day we were pronouncing the name as "Se-puhl-choo-ra" and not how it's meant to be pronounced being "Se-pull-toora."
     
  17. Mark Wilson

    Mark Wilson Forum Resident

    It only sounds Really bad though when Leonard Nimoy sings it that way. :)

    Mark
     
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  18. BrewDrinkRepeat

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    No... at least not in these here parts "don" and "dawn" are not pronounced the same. Watch the Luca Brasi scene in The Godfather to see how to pronounce "don." :)

    Very true! (For the record, I do not pronounce "cot" and "caught" the same.)

    I think one thing we can agree on: his name does NOT rhyme with sewn, shown, grown, flown, etc. It's a soft 'o'.
     
  19. Right. I was very surprised to hear Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson pronounce in a song "AL-u-MInium" instead of "al-U-minum" like I am used to hear in North America.
     
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  20. dance_hall_keeper

    dance_hall_keeper Forum Resident

    "Till There Was You" - The Beatles.

    There were birds in the sky
    But I never sar them winging
    No, I never sar them at all
    Till there was you
     
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  21. Summer of Malcontent

    Summer of Malcontent Forum Resident

    That's a good one. Andy, sometimes a rhyme just ain't worth the pain!
     
  22. majorlance

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    Bob Dylan – "Ballad in Plain D"

    The constant scrapegoat, she was easily undone
    By the jealousy of others around her
     
  23. The Absent-Minded Flaneur

    The Absent-Minded Flaneur Forum Resident

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    Joni Mitchell Otis and Marlena:

    In her ballrooms heads of state
    In her bedrooms rented girls
    Always the grand parades of cellulate
    Jiggling to her golden pools...

    Lovely lyrics, Joni, but it's cellulite.
     
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  24. tim_neely

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    "Lost in Emotion" by Lisa Lisa with Cult Jam: "Que sera, que sera" is sung to sound like "Kuh sarah, kuh sarah" (like the woman's name).

    "Suddenly I See" by KT Tunstall: The words "calm" and "palm" are pronounced as if they are "cam" and "pam," which may be a Scottish thing.
     
  25. J.A.W.

    J.A.W. Music Addict

    The Byrds in "The Bells of Rhymney" on the Mr Tambourine Man album: they sing "Rimney" but it should be "Rumney".
     
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